A 60-year-old woman was shot and killed at an Angelus Oaks campground today, authorities said.

An employee at the Camp Cedar Falls Campground & Conference Center called 9-1-1 just before noon to report that he had found a woman suffering from a gunshot wound in the conference center. She was apparently a guest at the Christian camp on Highway 38, which is owned and operated by the Southern California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.

Leith Hamilton, 30, of Angelus Oaks, was arrested soon after on suspicion of murder.

The two are not believed to have known each other prior to the shooting and witnesses have not reported any argument between them, said sheriff’s spokeswoman Jodi Miller.

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